[Dovecot] How is the correct "auth" method selected in 1.0-stable?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Aug 7 18:22:53 EEST 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:25 -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> In the example config for 1.0-stable, I see several "auth <blah> {}"
> blocks.  The only one uncommented is the "auth default{}" block.  How
> does dovecot decide which one to use?  If I want it to use LDAP,
> should I just modify the "userdb" and "passdb" entries in the "auth
> default" block?  Or should I be using the "auth ldap" block and
> somehow telling dovecot to use it?

Just modify userdb/passdb entries. If you define multiple auth blocks,
Dovecot tries all of them in more-or-less random order and use the first
one that works.

With 1.0-tests things have changed and there really shouldn't ever be
more than one auth block.

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